Bone (1972)
AKA Beverly Hills Nightmare, Dial Rat for Terror, Housewife. Bone is the low-budget king Larry Cohen's first directorial effort. Obstensibly a blaxploitation film, Bone tends to bounce back and forth between exploitation and seriousness. The basic plot starts off as a home invasion by Yaphet Kotto into the mansion of a middle-aged white couple. On one hand, it is designed to provoke "white terror" and fears (it was also titled "Housewife" and marketed more as sexploitation), but it goes beyond to slowly reverse all of the presuppositions that you have about each character when they initially appear. The ending definitely cannot be predicted from the setup. The look of the film appears very professional and naturalistic, and the acting is all top-notch and campy or serious where it needs to be.
Tagline: A Bad Day in Beverly Hills.
Highlights: The acting from Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Joyce Van Patten, and Jeannie Berlin. The naturalistic, real-time look of the movie, coupled with the very honest portrayal of the seedier sides of the characters (as well as the more vulnerable sides).
Tagline: A Bad Day in Beverly Hills.
Highlights: The acting from Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Joyce Van Patten, and Jeannie Berlin. The naturalistic, real-time look of the movie, coupled with the very honest portrayal of the seedier sides of the characters (as well as the more vulnerable sides).
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